March 30, 2012  || Vol. 4, Issue 13
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Funding OpportunitiesFunding    
Advancing Social Sciences-Based Research on Food Assistance and Nutrition Challenges in Rural America
Deadline: May 4, 2012
(From the Rural Assistance Center)
The purpose of the RIDGE (Research Innovation and Development Grants in Economics) Center for Targeted Studies at the Southern Rural Development Center (SRDC) is to invest in innovative social sciences-based research that explores the food and nutrition assistance challenges of rural people and places. The program is especially interested in proposals that focus on Native Americans, Hispanics, African Americans, and other racial/ethnic populations, as well as children and low-wealth individuals/households. RIDGE grant applicants are required to focus their research on people, organizations, institutions, or communities/counties located in nonmetro counties or rural places of the United States. Click here for more information.

Building and Enhancing Criminal Justice Researcher-Practitioner Partnerships
Deadline: May 30, 2012
The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) seeks proposals for the funding of multiple criminal justice research projects involving researcher-practitioner partnerships as well as capturing, in detail, relevant accounts of these collaborations. This solicitation specifically aims to support criminal justice research and evaluation activities that include a researcher-practitioner partnership component. Within the context of the proposed research or evaluation project, these partnerships can be new or ongoing. Results from these projects should lead to better criminal justice policy, practice, and research, especially for the participating practitioner partners.  Click here for more information.

Environmental Exposures and Health: Exploration of Non-Traditional Settings
Deadline: January 7, 2016
The purpose of this funding opportunity announcement (FOA) issued by the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) is to encourage interdisciplinary research aimed at promoting health, limiting symptoms and disease, and reducing health disparities in children and older adults living or spending time in non-traditional settings. These settings result in exposure to environmental pollutants and toxins that result in health risks, symptoms, and other health conditions/diseases including lower respiratory diseases, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and cardiovascular diseases. Risk identification and symptom management include prevention and behavior changes and actions to maintain health and prevent disease with an emphasis on the individual, family, and community which will advance nursing science. For purposes of this FOA, non-traditional settings, for children and older adults, include, but are not limited to places such as community centers, pre-school and non-traditional school environments (e.g., churches, daycare, home-based schools, dormitories, and alternative schools), child and older adult foster care facilities, older adult day care facilities, half-way homes, assisted living and long-term care facilities. Click here for more information.

OJJDP FY 2012 National Juvenile Court Data Archive
Deadline: May 7, 2012
(Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention)
The National Juvenile Court Data Archive (the Archive) houses the automated records of cases that courts with juvenile jurisdiction have handled. This solicitation will fund the annual collection, verification, and analysis of data that documents the activities of the juvenile justice court system and its response to law-violating and at-risk youth. The Archive will disseminate information on juvenile court case processing through Juvenile Court Statistics reports and fact sheets and make national and state-level data publicly accessible online. The Archive will also provide technical assistance to state and local data collection agencies to help them expand and improve their information systems and information sharing capabilities. Finally, the Archive will conduct a feasibility study to assess the level of effort required to expand the scope of the Archive to include data collection from juvenile dependency (child abuse and neglect) courts. Click here for more information.

OJJDP FY 2012 Field-Initiated Research and Evaluation Program
Deadline: May 7, 2012
The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP)'s Field-Initiated Research and Evaluation (FIRE) program supports methodologically rigorous research and evaluation studies that inform policy and practice consistent with the Department of Justice's mission. OJJDP is focusing this year's FIRE program solicitation on funding studies of school-based practices, environment, and achievement that relate to reducing student victimization and the risk of delinquency. The goal of this year's FIRE program is to foster new and ongoing rigorous, scientific research and evaluation that has practical applications for the development of effective school programs, policies, and strategies that will foster positive youth development and reduce the risk of victimization and delinquency. Click here for more information.

Technology-Based Interventions to Promote Engagement in Care and Treatment Adherence for Substance Abusing Populations with HIV
Deadline: January 7, 2015
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) issued by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) encourages Research Project Grant (R01) applications to test the utility and implementation of technological tools, including mobile devices, to promote engagement in Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) care among substance abusing populations with HIV. Research projects may focus on (a) the use of technology to directly improve patient-level outcomes (i.e., adherence); (b) the capacity of HIV treatment providers and related service delivery organizations to adopt and integrate such technologies to promote HIV treatment outcomes; or (c) the use of technology to improve the organization and delivery of HIV treatment and services. Click here for more information.

Research on Domestic Radicalization
Deadline: May 29, 2012
The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) seeks proposals for funding research to support Federal, State, local, and tribal criminal justice agencies in meeting the challenges posed by domestic radicalization to violence. Proposals should develop and analyze information and data that have clear implications for criminal justice in the following focus areas: (1) Empirical Evaluation of Theories of Domestic Radicalization; (2) Examination of Radicalization Processes for Individuals; (3) Comparative Analysis of Violent Extremists, Organized Criminals, Gangs, Hate Groups and/or Cults; and (4) Influence of Community and Other Policing Strategies on Domestic Radicalization to Violence. Click here for more information.

Healthy Eating Research: Building Evidence to Prevent Childhood Obesity
Deadline: August 9, 2012 (concept paper), October 4, 2012 (full proposal)
(From the Philanthropy News Digest)
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Healthy Eating Research: Building Evidence to Prevent Childhood Obesity program supports research on environmental and policy strategies with strong potential to promote healthy eating among children to prevent childhood obesity, especially among lower-income and racial and ethnic populations at highest risk for obesity. Findings are expected to advance RWJF's efforts to reverse the childhood obesity epidemic by 2015. RWJF funds efforts at the organizational, community, state, and federal levels to change public and institutional policies and environments in ways that promote improved nutrition and physical activity. This work ranges from large-scale changes to smaller-scale efforts taking place at the organizational or institutional level (e.g., in schools, recreational programs, child-care settings, hospitals, retail food outlets) that could be replicated if effective. Click here for more information.

OVC FY 12 Identifying Culturally Responsive Victim-Centered Restorative Justice Strategies
Deadline: May 8, 2012
(Office for Victims of Crime)
One cooperative agreement of up to $250,000 will be awarded to identify, examine, and document the characteristics of existing programs that exhibit culturally responsive victim-centered restorative justice practices, with an emphasis on practices implemented in tribal communities and urban inner city communities, and practices involving youth. Applicants must demonstrate knowledge and experience with restorative justice practices; experience assessing system-based and non-system-based victim services programs; the ability to assess programs involving youth; and the staff resources and capability to conduct a national-scope assessment. Click here for more information.

Australian-American Health Policy Fellowship
Deadline: August 15, 2012
On behalf of the Australian Department of Health and Ageing, The Commonwealth Fund is pleased to announce the Australian-American Health Policy Fellowship. From 2003-2009, the Australian-American Health Policy Fellowship was known as the Packer Policy Fellowships, named in honor of the late Mr. Kerry Packer AC, former chairman of Consolidated Press Holdings Limited. This program offers a unique opportunity for outstanding, mid-career U.S. professionals-academics, government officials, clinical leaders, decision makers in managed care and other private health care organizations, and journalists-to spend up to 10 months in Australia conducting research and working with Australian health policy experts on issues relevant to both countries. Click here for more information.

Post-Doctoral Scholar: Network Capacity and Disaster Resilience in Local Communities
Deadline: open until filled
This individual will take a leadership role in all aspects of the project design, implementation, and analysis of a large two-phase multi-county survey and social network analysis. We are seeking a full-time post-doctoral scholar to join our project team (www.firechasers.ncsu.edu) for an NSF-funded research study on disaster resilience in local communities. The FireChasers project team is a multi-disciplinary research team led by Branda Nowell, Ph.D., and Toddi Steelman, Ph.D. We have been conducting research on social networks and adaptive capacity related to inter-agency response to large scale wildfires since 2008. North Carolina State University is located in the Research Triangle of North Carolina where we enjoy the benefits and intellectual resources of three major research universities. Click here for more information.

Quality Improvement Center on Differential Response in Child Protective Services Doctoral Dissertation Support 
Deadline: June 29, 2012 
This is an announcement of the availability of funding to support doctoral research in the area of Differential Response (DR) in Child Protective Services. The aim of these awards is twofold: (1) to expand the knowledge base for DR and (2) to help develop researchers who can make an ongoing contribution to child welfare research. The purpose of the Quality Improvement Center on Differential Response in Child Protective Services (QIC-DR) is to determine, through research and demonstration projects and doctoral-level dissertations, the impact of DR models on outcomes for children within the child protective services and child welfare systems. The QIC-DR works to generate knowledge about effective practice models of DR in child protective services and to incorporate community and prevention approaches to serve families that are involved in child protective services systems. In addition, the QIC-DR works to foster collaborative research, demonstration, and dissertation projects that address DR in child protective services across the various systems that interface to maximize family strengths and keep children safe: neighborhood and community-based organizations, prevention programs, child protection, child welfare, health, education, housing, financial, and family support. Click here for more information. 
CallsCalls
Call for Papers
SSWR 2013
Deadline: April 30, 2012
The Society for Social Work and Research (SSWR) announces its Seventeenth Annual Conference "Social Work for a Just Society: Making Visible the Stakes and Stakeholders" which will convene in San Diego, CA, January 16-20, 2013. You are invited to submit abstracts for one of the three types of presentations of original research: (1) oral paper presentations; (2) organized symposia; and (3) poster presentations. The conference will also include workshop and roundtable sessions for which you can submit abstracts. Click here for more information. 

Call for Programs
NATIONAL MULTICULTURAL CONFERENCE AND SUMMIT
Deadline: May 4, 2012
Transforming Multicultural Psychology: Engagement, Renewal, and Action across Generations   
The 2013 National Multicultural Conference and Summit (NMCS) will convene students, practitioners, and scholars in psychology and related fields to inform and inspire multicultural theory, research, and practice. Multiculturalism is envisioned as inclusive of experiences related to age, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity and expression, indigenous heritage, national origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, social class and socioeconomic status, and other social identities. The NMCS is hosted every two years by four divisions of the American Psychological Association, Division 17 (Society of Counseling Psychology), Division 35 (Society for the Psychology of Women), Division 44 (Society for the Psychological Study of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Issues), and Division 45 (Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues). Click here for more information.

Call for Abstracts
AMERSA Annual Conference
Deadline: May 25, 2012
The Association for Medical Education and Research in Substance Abuse (AMERSA) invites you to celebrate our 36th anniversary at the Double Tree Hotel in Bethesda, MD on November 1-3, 2012. The conference is notable for its in-depth focus on substance abuse education and the high quality of its workshops and presentations. The objectives of the AMERSA National Conference are to bring together researchers and health professional educators to learn about scientific advances and exemplary teaching approaches. AMERSA's membership consists of a multidisciplinary audience, comprised of physicians, nurses, social workers, dentists, psychologists, public health practitioners, substance abuse specialists, physician assistants, and allied health professionals. Click here for more information. 
Conferences & Trainingsconf
Dyadic Data Analysis Workshop
July 23-26, 2012
Deborah A. Kashy, Ph.D. (Michigan State University)
Robert A. Ackerman, Ph.D. (University of Texas at Dallas)
The workshop will focus on analyses for data in which both members of a dyad are measured on the same set of variables. Topics to be addressed include the measurement of nonindependence, the Actor-Partner Interdependence Model, the analysis of distinguishable and indistinguishable dyads, and the analysis of over-time dyadic data (e.g., dyadic growth curve models). The software package used in the workshop will be SPSS. Although the workshop does not require any prior knowledge or experience with multilevel modeling (a basic introduction to this analytic approach will be included during the workshop), participants are expected to have a working knowledge of multiple regression and analysis of variance, as well as SPSS. This four-day workshop (with an optional ½ day on Friday) will include a lecture component with hands-on application of the material covered in lecture, as well as one-on-one consultation meetings concerning participants' actual research and data analytic questions. There will be time for individual meetings with workshop instructors from 3:00pm to 5:00pm each afternoon, as well as on Friday morning 9:00-11:00. Participants are encouraged, but not required, to bring their own data so that they can apply these new methods to their own projects.  Click here for more information.

New Jersey Fellows: Building Capacity in "Managing by Data" to Improve Leadership, Frontline Practice & Case Outcomes Webinar
May 2, 2012
On Wednesday, May 2, 2012, from 3-4:15 PM ET, the National Child Welfare Workforce Institute (NCWWI) invites you and your colleagues to join us for our fourth session in What Works for the Workforce: Leadership Competencies in Action - A National Webinar Series on Leading Change to Strengthen the Child Welfare Workforce. This webinar is free, and open to all. This webinar will showcase a capacity-building effort at the New Jersey Department of Children and Families (NJ DCF) to build capacity in the area of in the area of "managing by data" in order to support the Department's emerging quality improvement efforts, using both quantitative and qualitative data - on the ground, at the front line level, and throughout the organization. The New Jersey Fellows Program provides an opportunity for 100 DCF staff (supervisors, managers, quality coordinators, etc.) to learn how to better utilize data to support improved case practice and outcomes for children and families. The session will highlight the development, implementation, components and outcomes of the program, as well as the lessons learned, tips for agencies, and the leadership skills and competencies necessary to sustain it over time. Click here for more information.

Health Disparities Research and Minority Populations: Exploring ICPSR Data Sources
June 18-22, 2012
Using hands-on analysis of Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) data, this workshop explores ways to understand racial and ethnic differences in health care access and outcomes. The workshop is meant for researchers in the social sciences (i.e., faculty, professionals, and advanced graduate students) with skills in quantitative analysis and a substantive interest or experience in health disparities. Click here for more information.
Research Publications & Data Resourcesdata

Research & Practice Brief (R&PB, No 6)
Center on Adherence and Self-Determination
The Center on Adherence and Self-Determination (CASD) conducts research aimed at promoting choice and full engagement in services that help people with serious mental illness achieve their recovery goals. One factor which impacts service engagement is the consumer-provider exchange.   An example of our work and methods employed in the area of consumer-provider exchange is the attached Research & Practice Brief (R&PB).  This is the sixth in a series.  These R&PBs are meant to summarize the CASD's research into succinct statements that might be used by advocates, policy makers, and other interested parties to promote the agenda of self-determination.  Click here to read current and past briefs.      

 

Terra Populus
The Web site is now available for the Terra Populus project, a collaboration between the Minnesota Population Center, ICPSR, and several other institutions. The project, funded by the National Science Foundation's DataNet initiative, integrates, disseminates, and preserves data describing changes in population and the environment. TerraPop will integrate two centuries of census data with global environmental data to create new opportunities for understanding the relationship between population and the environment on a global scale. Click here for more information.    

   

IRP Discussion Papers
The following newly released Discussion Papers from the Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP) can be read in full on the IRP Web page.
*A Very Uneven Road: U.S. Labor Markets in the Past 30 Years, Harry J. Holzer and Marek Hlavac
*Food Insecurity and Food Access, Alessandro Bonanno and Jing Li      

 

NIH LAUNCHES ONLINE RESOURCE ON BEHAVIORAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH METHODS
A Web-based interactive anthology will provide psychologists, economists, anthropologists, sociologists and other scientists with the latest research methods and tools to address emerging challenges in public health, such as the obesity epidemic and the rise of chronic diseases such as heart disease. The Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR) at the National Institutes of Health collaborated with New England Research Institutes to create the free resource, called e-Source.   

News & Noticesnews  
First-ever Federal IV-E Plan Approved for Native American Tribe 
(From Fostering Connections) 
One of the major reforms of the Fostering Connections Act of 2008 was the authority it granted the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) to allow Tribes to directly operate Title IV-E programs for children in foster care.  The federal government has just exercised this new authority by approving the Port Gamble S'Klallam Tribe (PGST) as the first Native American Tribe to operate, starting April 1, its own foster care, guardianship and adoption assistance program.   Prior to the passage of the Fostering Connections Act, tribal governments could only receive federal IV-E funding through agreements with state governments.  See here for the announcement by the Administration for Children and Families, DHHS.   Federal officials and Tribal leaders will participate in a signing ceremony and celebration on March 29 in Port Gamble.   What does this mean for other tribes?  Of the approximately 560 tribes in the United States, fewer than half have an agreement with states to access IV-E funds. Therefore, the Indian Child Welfare Act continues to play an important role in navigating child welfare services for children and families in tribal communities.  Interested stakeholders can learn more by visiting the National Child Welfare Resource Center for Tribes. Click here for more information.

SSWR Health Social Work Interest Group
There is now a new email listserv for the Society of Social Work Research (SSWR) health social work interest group to generate ideas and develop collaborative proposals for SSWR, as well as to discuss textbooks, upcoming conferences, and ideas about health social work research and to generate an agenda for meetings of the interest group at SSWR.  In order to subscribe to this listserv, you can do so at this website OR you can subscribe by sending an email to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.SC.EDU with the body of the message stating: SUBSCRIBE HealthSWR firstname lastname. Any questions? Please email Teri Browne at browne@sc.edu.
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